Motivational Quotes

Conflict

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Conflict

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Thoreau, Henry David

What people need and what they want may be very different.

Hubbard, Elbert

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Carlyle, Thomas

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

Russell, Walter

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Anderson, Marian

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Sidney, Sir Philip

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Fowler, Gene

We cannot really think in one way and act in another...

Troward, Thomas

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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Howard, Vernon

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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. [2 Timothy 4:7]

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For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. [(Romans 7:19]

Bible

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Only by pride comes contention; but, with the well-advised is wisdom. [Proverbs 13:10]

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The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself -- where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Moustakas, Clark

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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

Casa, Giovani della

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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Ziglar, Zig

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It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Wilder, Thornton

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A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe.

Bhagavad Gita

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No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Kames, Lord

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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.

Seabury, David

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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Pascal, Blaise

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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Like a ball bated back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Upanishad, Yogabindu

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Plato

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The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41]

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The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it should do, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Kiley, John Cantwell

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The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to do what it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

Walsh, William T.

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The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Gatty, Margaret

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Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference, ... a oneness and integration of the two opposing forces. Then the civil war is finished, and your energies are ready for your struggle with the world.

Perls, Frederick Salomon

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The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator.

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No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

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Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.

Hopkins, Tom

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Lincoln, Abraham

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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

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We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

DeVos, Richard M.

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Kennedy, John F.

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Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.

Low, Albert

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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I'm not a combative person.My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Grant, Alistair

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Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Nixon, Richard M.

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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.